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What’s the real secret to GT’s batting success? (Hint: it’s not the batters

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On Saturday night, Bengaluru's cricket fans paid tribute to Virat Kohli's Test career when they poured into the M Chinnaswamy Stadium for a T20 game that never happened. On Sunday night, another man from Bengaluru paid his own tribute to Kohli - in Kohli's hometown, no less - though this was a T20 tribute in a T20 game.

It came in the 19th over of Delhi Capitals' (DC) innings against Gujarat Titans (GT), and it came off a ball that pitched 8.7m from the stumps. That's solidly back of a length, a length that's incredibly hard to hit down the ground for six, especially off a rapid, hit-the-deck bowler, with a bat not quite vertical but certainly more vertical than horizontal.